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Second Chances in the Criminal Justice System: Alternatives to Incarceration and Recovery Strategies |
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| Sponsoring Entity: Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions |
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"When someone has been judged guilty and the appellate and collateral review process has ended, the legal profession seems to lose all interest. When a prisoner is taken away, our attention turns to the next case. When the door is locked against the prisoner, we do not think about what is behind it."
"As a profession, and as a people, we should know what happens after the prisoner is taken away."
"Out of sight, out of mind is an unacceptable excuse for a prison system that incarcerated over two million human beings in the United States."
"[o]ur resources are misspent, our punishments too severe, our sentences too long."
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
This compendium of the American Bar Association's Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions and the Justice Kennedy Commission focuses on the fairness and proportionality of punishment and on ways in which criminal offenders may avoid or escape the permanent legal disabilities and stigma of a criminal record.
Second Chances in the Criminal Justice System includes Reports and Recommendations from the ABA House of Delegates, Midyear Meeting 2007 regarding:- Alternatives to Incarceration and Conviction
- Improvements in Probation and Parole Supervision
- Employment and Licensure of Persons with a Criminal Record
- Access to and Use of Criminal History Information
- Representation Relating to collateral Consequences
- Training in the Exercise of Discretion and
- Certificates of Rehabilitation and Other Forms of Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction
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